An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale hit Nyainrong County in Tibet's Nagqu at 8:58 AM Saturday, the China Earthquake Network Center said.

The epicenter was 32.5 degrees north latitude and 92.8 degrees east longitude, about 60 kilometers north of Nyainrong, with a depth of about 10 kilometers.

No immediate reports of casualties or economic losses were available. Tibet's seismological bureau has sent a work team to Nyainrong.

The quake-hit area, sparsely populated, has an average altitude of 5,000 meters.

On March 24, two earthquakes measuring 5.7 and 5.5 struck Nyainrong without causing human or livestock casualties.

(Xinhua News Agency April 17, 2010)